ESPN Reaches New Low Following Death of Alabama Lineman Aaron Douglas

All, College Football, Death, ESPN, OUTRAGE Tim Ryan May 12th. 2011, 3:52pm

Alabama offensive lineman Aaron Douglas was found dead last night in Jacksonville, Florida. The cause of the 21-year-old’s death is unknown, but rather than simply report terribly sad news and forget about the football aspect, ESPN pounced on the story like a proud, crack-addicted hooker and pondered what this all might mean for “five-star signee Cyrus Kouandjio.”

Didn’t think it was possible to say “inexplicable disgrace” and have it still feel like a whopping understatement, but this thoughtless move leaps far over those words like a skilled pole vaulter.

Hopefully someone at ESPN will have the good sense to issue an apology to the Douglas family on both the front page of ESPN.com and on the network itself.

[via @Marcus Dittmer @Nastinchka & TVF]

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41 Responses to “ESPN Reaches New Low Following Death of Alabama Lineman Aaron Douglas”

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ATL_Badger Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 3:57 PM
Japan Tsunami opens up the door for tons of beach-front-property developers!
/ESPN Headline’d
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YYSA Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 3:58 PM
Wow. That is bad.
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YYSA Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 3:59 PM
I think the worst part is they are using that headline to try to sell insider shit.
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HuskerDawg Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 3:59 PM
Wow. That is bad.
Apparently it’s not the worst thing ESPN has done, according to SC, anyway.
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SouvenirCity Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:00 PM
Abstaining.
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KingGrizz Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:01 PM
“Now on our 9am live sportscenter we are going to go live to Cyrus Kouandijo’s home to see what he thinks of the now wide open race at left tackle — let’s to go Sal Palintiono in Mobile. Sal –”
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KingGrizz Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:02 PM
Also — does that mean that it is just a rumor of his death?
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Ty_Webb 1.0 Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:02 PM
Wow. That is bad.
/tries to package this dude’s dead corpse with Steve Nash on NBA Trade Machine
//too soon?
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Ty_Webb 1.0 Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:03 PM
Also — does that mean that it is just a rumor of his death?
Pay your $2.50 and find out…
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Jason Lisk Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:04 PM
I’m waiting for the door to my burgeoning caption career to open up with the unfortunate demise of T-Ryan
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ms621 Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:06 PM
Albert Lin, you might be getting some hate mail coming your way.
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Babar 2.0 Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:07 PM
Even the title of the post is offensive.
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sousedbergin Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:09 PM
From I what I learned this week EPSN will say something controversial in order to disavow it and than come full circle to the story later. Sports Reporters will have a disavow-off whereby the winner displayed the most umbrage.
Reminds me of a sunglasses company who had so many bad online reviews he got higher Google placement and made more money.
/String bell’d ‘We do worse, and we get paid more’
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Jason Lisk Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:10 PM
It reads like someone just took a depth chart report and just inserted “death” instead of “demotion” and published it.
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Menarky Party Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:11 PM
From I what I learned this week EPSN will say something controversial in order to disavow it and than come full circle to the story later
this is exactly what they do. i just really hate that network.
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ms621 Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:12 PM
Sometimes I wish I was alive in the 1960s.
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cleet Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:13 PM
I’m waiting for the door to my burgeoning caption career to open up with the unfortunate demise of T-Ryan
/Standing ovation
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Babar 2.0 Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:13 PM
Albert Lin went to Michigan.
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Ty_Webb 1.0 Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:13 PM
This is why we oversign every class….
/SEC
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BFFredo Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:13 PM
What? No breakdown of how this opens up a scholarship for Saban to dangle in front of 4 or 5 recruits? I’m disappointed.
/shocked
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Babar 2.0 Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:14 PM
Sometimes I wish I was alive in the 1960s.
So she can move her arms when she dances.
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Broccoli Beef Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:14 PM
Possible duckworth’d, but did anyone mention the
Leonardo DiCaprio and Supermodel Bar Refaeli Split
at all? Another one back on the market!
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Roethlishotdog Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:15 PM
I think his death was a vast conspiracy to open up a scholarship for Saban’s oversigning practices.
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ms621 Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:15 PM
It reads like someone just took a depth chart report and just inserted “death” instead of “demotion” and published it.
This is not the same thing, but I found it amusing that Bob Hope’s New York Times obituary was written by Vincent Canby….Canby had died three years earlier.
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Breesus Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:16 PM
Alabama offensive lineman Aaron Douglas was found dead at his home in Jacksonville Florida. Douglas was the 14th rated offensive lineman in the 2012 Draft, according to ESPN Draft Expert Todd McShay.
/bottom line’d
//the sad thing is I can see them doing that
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ATL_Badger Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:17 PM
Albert Lin went to Michigan.
Well of course he did. He obviously has no soul.
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LongLiveWeaponX Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:17 PM
Possible duckworth’d, but did anyone mention the
Leonardo DiCaprio and Supermodel Bar Refaeli Split
at all? Another one back on the market!
No offense dude, but I think Leo might be a little out of your league.
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Breesus Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:18 PM
Wait, how does this affect Matt Hasslebeck’s status in Seattle?
/John Clayton
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jim Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:20 PM
I’m waiting for the door to my burgeoning caption career to open up with the unfortunate demise of T-Ryan
Just put some Nair in one of his many haircare products and he’ll eventually off himself when his luxurious mane is no more
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ATL_Badger Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:20 PM
“Shocker at LT.”
Not the first time “shocker” and “LT” have been used in the same sentence, I’m sure.
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cleet Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:21 PM
No offense dude, but I think Leo might be a little out of your league.
ZING
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KingGrizz Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:24 PM
This is why we oversign every class….
That’s what sports blog commenting is all about. Insensitive and funny. Great work.
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KC Resident Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:25 PM
I’m waiting for the door to my burgeoning caption career to open up with the unfortunate demise of T-Ryan Lisk
+1 dead blogger
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Tim Ryan (TheSportsHernia) Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:26 PM
I’m waiting for the door to my burgeoning caption career to open up with the unfortunate demise of T-Ryan Lisk
+1 dead blogger
Ha. Truthfully though, Lisk did ask Hosmer to sign his left ball.
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ms621 Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:27 PM
Just put some Nair in one of his many haircare products and he’ll eventually off himself when his luxurious mane is no more
Or do what they did to Captain Harris’s shampoo in Police Academy (can’t remember if it was 4 or 6 though…).
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KC Resident Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:29 PM
No offense dude, but I think Leo might be a little out of your league.
Leo is already sticking his penis in Ashley Greene.
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Triston27 Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:30 PM
Ha. Truthfully though, Lisk did ask Hosmer to sign his left ball.
But is it true that you showed Sam Bradford why they call you the sports hernia?
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LongLiveWeaponX Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:32 PM
Leo is already sticking his penis in Ashley Greene.
/Googles Ashley Greene
/Damn him…
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ATL_Badger Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:33 PM
Leo is already sticking his penis in Ashley Greene.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
/tear falls gently down my cheek
//Say it ain’t so Ashley
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Jason Lisk Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:34 PM
Ha. Truthfully though, Lisk did ask Hosmer to sign his left ball.
I’ve always been a Bat L, Throw L, Sign Ball L guy. It really restricts the positions you can play though.
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dontnomuch Says:
May 12th, 2011 at 4:38 PM
Hopefully someone at ESPN will have the good sense to issue an apology to the Douglas family on both the front page of ESPN.com and on the network itself
Sounds like a job for their ombudsman…